Printing to a USB port

[Grace A Jopling]

s_goodman at worldnet.att.net wrote:
> Dear Grace,
> 
> My name is Steve Goodman and am one of the "lurkers" on this list. I've been
> doing filepro for well over 15 years without major headaches until I
> switched my company to Windows XP and a 3000 Server. Printing was a
> headache. I found an answer. Do an internet search for DOSPRINT. It is a
> nice little program (free) that allows you to grab the data being sent to
> the LPT1 port and send it ANYWHERE. I send mine to a printer on my network
> and to the USB port attached to my local machine.
> 
> Hope it helps.
> Steve Goodman

Hello Steve,

Thanks for the info.  I'll see what I can find out about DOSPRINT.

I used to hang around here a lot more, but now I rarely ever pop in 
because I'm really not working (although still technically employed).  I 
started with filePro back when it was Profile 16 on a Tandy Xenix box! 
That was in the late, mid-'80s.  I've used other tools, such as 
dBase/FoxPro, but IMNSHO nothing else compares to fP.  I love it.

Glad to 'meet' you!  :-)
Grace

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Grace A
> Jopling
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 10:13 PM
> To: kenbrody at bestweb.net; filepro-list at seaslug.org
> Subject: Re: Printing to a USB port
> 
> kenbrody at bestweb.net wrote:
> 
>>Grace A Jopling wrote:
>>
>>>I cannot for the life of me remember how to print to a printer connected
>>>to a USB port.  I'm using 4.8N (DOS); it's a Canon BJC-6000 inkjet
>>>printer and its 'doze name is \\hpdesktop\canon
> 
> ...
> 
> 
>>You can't print to a BJC-6000 printer from DOS.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply, Ken, and for the info about the printer.  I 
> could have sworn I had printed to it before [using fP] but I guess I didn't!
> 
> As a workaround tonight, I printed the fP output to a file and then used 
> a word processor to print it. The only problem, which wasn't a big one, 
> was figuring out the page formatting within the word processor so it'd 
> print as intended.
> 
> Thanks again!
> Grace